Frey
FREY (Old Norse, Freyr) son of Njord, one of the chief deities in the northern pantheon and the national god of the Swedes. He is the god of fruitfulness, the giver of sunshine and rain, and thus the source of all prosperity. (See Teutonic Peoples, ad fin.)
Note - this article incorporates content from Encyclopaedia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, (1910-1911)
